glister
Example Sentences
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Brian Sewell, enemy of conceptualism and all things contemporary, once wrote, "They offer nothing but a moment's glister and demand no contemplation."
From The Guardian ● May 18, 2013
United head for Coventry, where they hope to glister in front of Gould.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2013
But those verses glister, still, if you only give them a chance, their fathomless shadows a mystery, and a balm.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2012
He looked hopefully at Bogert, who was still blandly neat and whose inner tension was perhaps betrayed only by the trace of glister at his temples.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
"Alas! how can I?" said Pangloss, "I have not a farthing, my friend, and all over the globe there is no letting of blood or taking a glister, without paying, or somebody paying for you."
From Candide by Voltaire
